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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 01:52 AM Aug 2017

So is it true that Sessions is taking money from the drug cartels to make marijuana illegal?

After all, prohibition worked out so well for the gangsters. Just think how profitable it would be for the drug cartels if Sessions cracks down on weed.

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So is it true that Sessions is taking money from the drug cartels to make marijuana illegal? (Original Post) Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 OP
I wouldn't be surprised TBH Bladewire Aug 2017 #1
Drug cartels. You mean like Pharma and liquor companies? Warren DeMontague Aug 2017 #2
Ah, Insys, the textbook definition of "drug pusher" ck4829 Aug 2017 #5
Always fun to ask a con about the problems with safeinOhio Aug 2017 #3
Good point, thanks. Hieronymus Aug 2017 #4
I don't know. People are saying. NurseJackie Aug 2017 #6

ck4829

(35,076 posts)
5. Ah, Insys, the textbook definition of "drug pusher"
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 07:25 AM
Aug 2017

In 2015, Oregon settled with an Arizona-based drugmaker -- Insys Therapeutics -- for $1.1 million after accusing the maker of using deceptive marketing to sell the opioid fentanyl.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/08/fed_up_with_overdose_deaths_mu.html

safeinOhio

(32,677 posts)
3. Always fun to ask a con about the problems with
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 04:04 AM
Aug 2017

The War on Poverty, and when they start to explain, ask if the same isn't true for the War on Drugs.
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